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Does it feel like the fediverse is exclusively used by older tech nerds? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The mastodon and lemmy content I’m seeing feels like 90% of it comes from people who are:

~30 years old or older
tech enthusiasts/workers
linux users

There’s nothing wrong with that particular demographic or anything, but it doesn’t feel like a win to me if the entire fediverse is just one big monoculture.

I wonder what it is that is keeping more diverse users away? Is picking a server/federation too complicated? Or is it that they don’t see any content that they like?

Thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's honestly quite a vicious cycle too; if you move to this app you are not engaging the same content your peers are, which can lead to alienation.

It's unpopular; and honestly it's not like other generations are big on this site either. There's a big overlap with 30 YO & tech nerds(complimentary), so it is prominent; but gen Z, or gen X, or millennials or boomers, none of them have a particular presence.

Also to go back onto the gen Z thing, both them and gen Alpha have been absorbed by a predative algorythm designed to hold consumers in, and most mainstream media is made so that people needn't work to prune the content they perceive, as it is mostly customised to their interest. Or whatever benefits the company. There's this barrier of entry a lot of people don't know how to deal with due to inexperienced, so it is IMO a complex, multifaceted issue.